Capo: 3

“While You Were Sleeping” By: Elvis Perkins From: Ash Wednesday 2007 Tabbed by: Tony D Capo 3 Standard Tuning Verse:

Whi^Gle yo^Cu were ^Gsleep^Aming, your babies grew Th^Ge s^Ctars shi^Gned, and^Am the shadows moved An^Gd ti^Cme flew^G, the ^Amphone rang The^Gre wa^Cs a silence^G when^Am the kitchen sang Its ^Gsongs ^Ccompeted ^Glike k^Amids for space We ^Gstared ^Cfor hou^Grs in^Am our maker’s face Th^Gey gav^Ce us picks^G, sai^Amd don’t mind the sun An^Gd ^Cgo gold an^Gd come b^Amack when you’re done ^G ^CUh-oh ^G. .^Am . uh-oh

*All verses same progression Verse:

^CWhile ^Gyou w^Cere sleep^Ging, ^Amyou tossed you turned You rolled your eyes as the world burned The heavens fell, the earth quaked I thought you must be, but you weren’t awake No you were dreaming, you ignored the sun You grew your power garden for your little ones And you found brides for them on Christmas Eve They hung young Cain from the Adam trees -- And danced uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh

Chorus:

^AmWhile yo^Eu were slee^Amping, I tossed and I turned ‘Til I c^Dmlosed my eye^Gs but the future burned Through ^Cthe plan^Fet turned a hair grey As I re^Elived the day

*All choruses follow same progression as well Third Verse:

^CWhile ^Gyou w^Cere sleep^Ging^Am, the money died Machines were harmless and the Earth sighed The wind, you swept sound And gravity but my love around The oceans rose, sang about decay While the witches flew and the mermaids stayed Full of dreams, you overslept And keeping with the quiet through the walls I crept And walked on tiptoes Sent darkness swirling over all the kitchen In the early morning Uh-oh, uh-oh

Chorus: I’ll never catch up to you, who sleeps so sound My yawns are useless, my heart beats too loud But go to sleep, my mind’s too proud to bow out Verse While you were sleeping, the time changed All your things were rearranged Your vampire mirrors, face to face They saw forever out into space And found you dreaming in black and white While it rained in all the colors of the night Uh-oh, Uh-oh Chorus: While I watched the TV’s memories Of championships managed to seep, can it be? My honey be-tween you an’ me Verse: So I waited for the riddled sky To be solved again by the sunrise And I made a death soup for life For my father’s ill widowed wife Chorus: Did you have that strangest dream before you woke? Because in God you had the butterfly stroke. Did it escape you like some half-told joke When you reached for your plume of smoke? Verse: And it’ll haunt you my honey bee Anyone, who’s anyone has that same dream Where you’re falling, where you’re flying And were you calling out, or were you dieing? But thank God you’re up now, let’s stay this way There’ll still be no more names and no more days ‘Cause when we’re dreaming, the babies grow The sun shines and the shadows flow Time flies and the phone rings There is a silence when everybody tries to sing Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. . . 5/07 http://www.elvisperkins.net/

Elvis Perkins - While you were sleeping